Crossword-Solution: DIRENESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Direness | n. | Terribleness; horror; woefulness. |
We have 1 clue for the answer “DIRENESS”
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| Ominousness. | 1 answer |
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AEMECZ
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DIRENESS (4)
There were men working among the wreckage, directing each other with guttural disparaging cries, moving efficiently yet slowly, as if the direness of the damage had made them lose all heart.
But he is upon the spot to smooth the felon's troubled spirit, and I am with him to teach the felon's boon companions the direness of the penalty.
Shrinks from him._) ANTONIO: What of her? Are you horrified to stone! Her maid?--There are than risen dead worse things And worse to dread!--her maid? CECCO: Sir---- ANTONIO: Forth with it! She direness of her mistress brings? some tale That earth elsewhere abyssless gaped her up? That butterfly or bud turn asp to bite her? CECCO: Sir--she--the maid craves audience with the duke.
But for whatever cause their straits come, or of what kind soever, there is no strait of any degree of direness or from any source whatsoever of any nature whatsoever, from which prayer could not extricate them.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1947).